Gandhi family not biased towards Kharge: Tharoor

Congress presidential polls candidate Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said the Gandhi family was blessing him and the other candidate Mallikarjun Kharge, and had no bias towards either of them. IMAGE:......

Congress manifesto to focus on jobs, farm and banking reforms

The party’s research department team, which Rajya Sabha member M V Rajeev Gowda heads, has sifted through the suggestions received in the last five months, and the manifesto is slated to be......

Congress in poll mode, sets up 3 key panels for 2019 elections

Gearing up for the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the Congress on Saturday formed three crucial committees to look after coordination, manifesto and publicity in the polls, with the old guard......

Opposition names Meira Kumar as Prez nominee

The opposition's move to field Kumar makes it a Dalit vs Dalit presidential poll. The opposition on Thursday unanimously decided to field Meira Kumar, a Dalit, as its joint candidate for the......

'Unemployment is unprecedented'

'In May 2020-2021, nearly 10 crores (100 million) lost jobs.''Covid is not the reason for the present crisis. It aggravated the crisis.' IMAGE: Students protest against the alleged erroneous......

The many problems confronting the IITs

One third of faculty positions vacant.One per cent seats empty.New IITs lag in infrastructure, research.Abhishek Waghmare and Sahil Makkar report. Indian Institutes of Technology are struggling to......

Ex-PlanCom member also doubts poverty figure

Former member of the Planning Commission, Bhalchandra Mungekar has told Business Standard that while poverty being reduced between 2004-05 and 2011-12 was a fact, the minimum estimates used......

Plan panel keen to reinvent itself

One of the key tasks before the India's top think tank Planning Commission, which witnessed return of Montek Singh Ahluwalia as deputy chairman for a second straight term, would be to reinvent......